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| 1893 |
| | | De Lesseps, on trial for his management of the Panama Canal company, is sentenced to five years in prison | |
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| 1893 |
| | | In Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi writes his last opera, and his only comedy since the early days of his career. | |
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| 1893 |
| | | France claims the Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire) in west Africa as a French colony | |
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| 1893 |
| | | The Independent Labour Party, later changing its name to the Labour Party, is founded in Britain by the trade unionist Keir Hardie | |
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| 1893 |
| | | US author Stephen Crane cannot find a publisher for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, so issues it privately | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Leander Jameson, finding a pretext for war, drives Lobengula out of his kingdom in Rhodesia | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Gladstone finally gets a Home Rule bill through the Commons, only to have it rejected in the Lords | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Frank Hornby patents in Liverpool his Meccano construction system for children | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Decline in the federal gold reserve and panic by investors prompts a spectacular crash in the US economy | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi, travelling with a first-class ticket, is forcibly ejected from the carriage at Pietermaritzburg because of his colour | |
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